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A. E. PHILLIS.

COFFEE MILL.

No. 449,086. Patented Mar. 24, 1891.

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AVERY E. PHILLIS, OF NEWV BRIGHTON, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO THE LOGAN dz STROBRIDGE IRON COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

COFFEE SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Application filed July 14,189

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known I, AVERY E. PHILLIs, of New Brighton, in the county of Beaver and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Coffee-Mills, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of my inyention is to provide convenient means for holding coffee-mills by the hand during their use in grinding. Such coifee-mill is usually held by one hand while the crank is turned by the other, and because of its inconvenient shape it is difiicult to hold it against the turning force caused by the resistance of the coffee-berries to the action of the crank and grinding-cone. This increases the exertion required to operate the mill, and often causes spilling of the coifee. The device which I haveinvented to prevent this is remarkably simply and effective; and in its preferred construction shown in the drawings it consists of a hook or thumb-piece situate on the top of the coffee-mill box and adapted to beheld by the thumb of one hand, the fin- 2 5 gers of which bear against the side of thebox, leaving the other hand free to operate the crank. Instead of putting the thumopiece opposite the middle of one of the sides of a rectangular box, I place it opposite or nearly opposite one of the corners. In using the box -iV|lLL.

Patent No. 449,086, dated March 24, 1891.

0- Serial No. 358,705. (No model.)

The drawings show my improvement applied to a coffee-mill having an elevated hopper;but it will be understood that it is equally applicable to sunken-hopper mills.

2 is the box of the mill, 3 the hopper, and 4 the crank. To the top of the box I fix a hook-shaped th limb-piece 5, having its hooked portion projecting vertically. This thumbpiece may be secured to the box' by a screw 6, and as a convenient device for holding it from rotation it may have a small projection '7, which takes into a notch on a flange of the hopper. Other securing devices may be employed-for example, the thumb-piece may be made integral with the hopper-flange.

My improved device affords very convenient means for holding the box, for when the corner of the box is grasped by the left hand the thumb naturally rests against the thumbpiece, and the box can be held without diffi- 6o culty while the crank is turned by the other hand, as shown in Fig. 1.

I claim- 1. The combination, with a coffee-mill box of rectangular horizontal section, of a thumbpiece set on the top of the box substantially opposite to one of the corners thereof, substantially as and for the purposes described.

2. The combination, with a coffee-mill box, of a thumb-piece adapted to be held by the the fingers of the hand fit around the box corner, and the thumb fits against the thumbpiece, and the box is thus held in an easy and natural position, and the tendency to shift 3 5 the box occasioned by turning the crank is resisted.

Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings shows one of myimproved coffee-mills in perspective, and Fig. 2 is a side elevation of part thumb while the box is grasped by the hand, said thumb-piece being connected with the hopper-flange bya projection and recess, substantially as and for the purposes described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 8th day of July, A. D. 1890.

AVERY E. PHILLIS. Witnesses:

W. A. COVENTRY,

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0. C. ROBINGTON. 

